Monthly Archives: August 2004

More Cleanup Nonsense

I hunted around and found all the old, potentially working equipment I had left that I had no need of. I ended up with four two ATX cases and two Baby AT cases, an old 486SX mainboard, a P166 mainboard, a couple old hard disks I booted and wipped clean, some old RAM, a [...]

Closet Clean up Fun

I finally cleaned up all my old computer stuff. All told I have four junk cases, two old Baby AT mainboards, a 486 SX mainboard, and a couple old hard drives. Everything else I found was still usable enough to keep. The aforementioned items might be of value to someone else, so [...]

Shell Scripting and Perl for YTD Expenses

Quicken didn’t want to do what I needed, which was to total all my expenses by place of origin for the year to date. Quicken only sorts on category, but I long since gave up keeping Quicken up to date since I don’t want to message around with Web access to fetch my expenses [...]